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Installer needs Win XP to work - #367

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@philipzae philipzae commented Sep 29, 2026 •

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If bottle is set to Windows 7 or 10, the installer will throw error dialog saying to install or configure in the Control Panel.

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If bottle is set to Windows 7 or 10, the installer will throw error dialog saying: You must use "Turn Windows features on or off" in the Control Panel to install or configure Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP1.
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On Windows 10 or 7
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On Windows XP
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Arcitec commented Oct 12, 2026

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What about setting to win2000?

Modern Windows is derived from win2000, not from Win9x/XP code. So it may be safer to use win2000.

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XP is based on windows NT like windows 2000. Windows Me is based on Win9x. Also bottles doesn't list windows 2000 in its OS list and dotnet 3.5 also sets it to XP.

https://github.com/bottlesdevs/dependencies/blob/main/Essentials/dotnet35.yml#L12

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